Professor Kathryn North (AM MD BSc(Med) FRACP)

Kathryn North is Head of the Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research and Associate Dean of the Clinical School, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. She is also the Douglas Burrows Professor and Head of the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney. Following a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Boston she returned to Australia in 1995 as the recipient of the Children’s Hospital Research Career Development Award. Her research interests focus on inherited childhood muscle disorders and neurofibromatosis. In 2000 she received the Sunderland Award for achievement in neurobiological research and in 2008 was honoured by the Human Genetics Society of Australasia for her achievements in genetic research and as visiting Professor to the Harvard Genetics Program. Professor North is past Chairman of the Children’s Hospital Research Laboratories Committee and an Executive Board member of the World Muscle Society. She is currently a member of the Children’s Hospital Research Executive and Research Committee, and the University of Sydney Medical Deans Advisory Committee. She is Chairman of the Genetics Sub Committee of the Australian Association of Neurologists. She joined the Board of CMRI in 2000.